page_title: Epilobium alpestre
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Epilobium alpestre / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Epilobium alpestre Français&#160;: Epilobe à feuilles verticillées
context_page_description: Epilobium alpestre is a species of willowherb in the family Onagraceae. It is native to Europe and Asia.
context_section_description: Epilobium alpestre can reach an height of about 30–100 cm (12–39 in). It is a perennial herbaceous plant with a robust, erect and hollow stem. It has a short rhizome. Leaves are usually broadly lanceolate, acuminate at the apex and rounded at the base, with irregularly toothed margins, in whorls of 3 or 4. The Inflorescences are a simple, elongated. Flowers show four free acute sepals, shorter than the petals. They show a radial symmetry, 8 to 18 millimeters long and have a long tube. Corolla is pink, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, formed by four slightly indented petals and eight stamens. 
  Fruits consist of a long capsule opening with 4 valves. The seeds are around 1.8 millimeters long, spindle-shaped and narrowly narrowed at the bottom. Flowering time lasts from July to September.
caption: Leaves and friuts
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